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2686. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 10:10:27 PM It seems that this stuff was actually manufactured by Bremer Silberwarenfabrik. The Baden Pforzheim was on one of the serving utensils, which may be a ringer. 2687. judithathome - 2/27/2005 10:19:24 PM Don't give it away, whatever you do. 2688. Ronski - 2/28/2005 12:42:17 AM Our house, a few days ago.
2689. Ronski - 2/28/2005 12:43:07 AM And more snow on the way. The groundhog called it right. 2690. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 12:22:48 PM Back from the hot New Zealand summer, I spent two and a half hours this morning getting the kids to school and myself to work. Usually takes me an hour, but I got stuck in three different places, and had to dig myself out of the snow with an aluminium frying pan.
I was pleased to have survived the 40-hour return journey pretty well, but now I'm exhausted.
I enjoy contrasts. Up to a point. 2691. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:40:24 PM With a frying pan?
Oh I'm laughing now. 2692. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:40:55 PM Was it your emergency frying pan by any chance? 2693. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 2:53:13 PM Still in a dream world somewhere between Over There and Over Here, I set out as normal this morning. Not totally oblivious : we left ten minutes early, taking account of the snow.
But foolishly set off the Usual Way, which starts off with a Bit of a Steep Hill (about 100 metres in a kilometre). There is not all that much snow, but I have underestimated the wind factor, which has created deepish drifts in exposed places.
So we got stuck at the sharp bend half way up. Not having put any specialised digging utensils in the car, I resort to the camping gear, hence the frying pan, which now has a rather jagged rim from scraping the snow off the road. 2694. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:55:25 PM So you're there, scraping snow off the road with a frying pan.
I wish someone had taken a picture. 2695. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 3:06:01 PM Tell you what, the work keeps you warm.
I didn't notice the minus nine or whatever.
And almost as much fun as making sandcastles. 2696. Macnas - 2/28/2005 3:19:53 PM I'd have gone home. 2697. jayackroyd - 2/28/2005 6:40:00 PM Just got back from a local auction house that has a weekly walk in appraisal session. I was very surprised at the number of people there. I expected one bored staffer dealing with a trickle of people. Instead, there were four appraisers and a couple of dozen people there.
The stuff was valued at between 300 and 500 dollars at auction, which is an irritating number--too much to give away, really, but not enough to warrant a lot of effort to deal with. Presumably a buyer planning to resell would pay considerably less, and finding an auction that would take the flatware would entail more hassle than I would like to engage in. The place I went to won't deal with such cheap stuff.
If you're in the US, though, you can see their paintings guy on that antique roadshow thing tonight. He's an acquaintance of mine, and I was surprised to see him on television during a visit to my father's house. Today he was appraising things for people who were looking for gold in granny's oils and watercolors. When I asked him whether he was still doing that, he said he'd be on tonight. 2698. thoughtful - 2/28/2005 7:08:05 PM Ate out with friends on Sat night at a malaysian restaurant. Lots of food, reasonable prices. Everything was delish though very different from the fare I usually eat. Still, it was not food I'd ever crave. I had something called rainbow duck. Hubby had curried shrimp which was served on bamboo skewers. We shared around a bunch of the appetizers, and we had some sort of pineapple thing for dessert which was very sweet and tasty. 2699. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 7:18:10 PM I love Malaysian food, though it tends to be on the upper limit of my hot-spice tolerance.
Though I would have trouble defining the differences between Malaysian, Thai, and Indonesian, all of which are good by me. One supposes a geographical gradient rather than clear-cut national characteristics.
Even Malaysian Airlines food is good. Not just "tolerable by airline standards" good, but actually appetising. 2700. thoughtful - 2/28/2005 7:28:38 PM I was surprised at the lack of heat in this food. hubby's curried shrimp was supposed to be hot, but it really wasn't at all. I agree there's not a lot of discernible difference. They seem to include lots of fish and finely chopped meat, rice paper wrappers, rice, tea, lemon grass and so on. 2701. ronski - 2/28/2005 9:44:59 PM I like Indonesian food, but I don't think I ever have had Malaysian, which I assume is not too different.
What made the rainbow in the duck dish? 2702. thoughtful - 2/28/2005 11:02:43 PM I'm not sure...it didn't look like a rainbow to me...unless they meant the combo of veggies which included the chinese cabbage and other things as well as the slivers of duck meat. The waiter then brought the plate to the table and made individual 'dumplings' by wrapping the veggies in these paper thin rice wrappers. quite something. 2703. uzmakk - 3/4/2005 12:14:21 AM Nilsson:
You seem to be confusing "back packing" with "camping" in which we Americans simply disgorge the contents of our vehicles into a campsite. 2704. PelleNilsson - 3/5/2005 9:53:02 PM The kitchen window. If you look carefully you will see Christina appear as a spectre.
 2705. neato - 3/6/2005 12:21:05 AM That's nice. Reminiscent of those Victorian spirit photographs.
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